The first Governor-General of India was

A History of British India was written by

The National Archives of India came up in the

The British preserve official documents because

The British thought surveys were important for

Who was asked by Robert Clive to produce maps of Hindustan?

Some historians have divided Indian history into:

Colonisation means:

Autobiographies are account of people written by:

Historians at present do not write about:

Faujdari adalat refers to civil court

Industrialization was not the cause of growing demand of indigo in the end of the eighteenth century

Gomasthas were the agents appointed by planters.

Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran in 1917.

The French began cultivating indigo in Brazil and Jamaica.

What is the meaning of 'Colonization' in History?

According to historians what is the meaning of the term 'Colonial'?

Who were 'Calligraphists'?

What, according to you, is the reason behind use of dates in history?

Are official records the best sources of information?

Write a note on the following:
(i) Charter Act (ii) Dual government

What is sustainable development?

Write three methods of water conservation.

What do you think the artist is trying to convey through the image of Parliament on the previous page?

Why do you think enforcement of safety laws is important in any factory?

Can you point to a few other situations where laws (or rules) exist but people do not follow them because of poor enforcement?
(For example, over-speeding by motorists). What are the problems in enforcement? Can you suggest some ways in which enforcement can be improved?

Why and how do we periodise a time in history?

Why did James Rennel produce the first map of India?

What are the other literary sources, except official records?

How did the advent of printing press help in spreading news and information in a more effective way?

Answer the following questions related to picture given below:

(i) What is depicted in this picture?
(ii) Why are old advertisements important to us?
(iii) What does this advertisement suggest?

Read the given source and answer the questions:
In the 1930s, Verrier Elwin visited the land of the Baigas, a tribal group in central India. He wanted to know about them, their customs and practices, their art and folklore. He recorded many songs that lamented the hard time the Baigas were having under British rule.
In this land of the English how hard it is to live How hard it is to live. In the village sits the landlord. In the gate sits the Kotwar. In the garden sits the Patwari. In the field sits the Government.
In this land of the English how hard it is to live. To pay cattle tax we have to sell cow. To pay forest tax we have to sell buffalo. To pay land tax we have to sell bullock. 
How are we to get our food?
In this land of the English
(i) Who were Baigas? Why did they find it difficult to live under the English?
(ii) What was the main occupation of the Baigas?

This is a picture of Santhal girl carrying firewood. On the basis of the given picture, answer the following questions:

(i) What is the occupation of the Santhals?
(ii) Why were the Santhai unhappy under the British Raj?

"James Rennel was a supporter of British rule in India". Justify this statement.

Describe the way in which the Britishers started the very important procedure of writing the history.

Read the source given and answer the questions that follow:
Newspapers provide an account of the movements in different parts of the country. Here is a report of a police strike in 1946. More than 2000 policemen in Delhi refused to take their food on Thursday morning as a protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the Police Lines kitchen. As the news spread to the other police stations, the men there also refused to take food. One of the strikers said: "The food supplied to us from the Police Lines kitchen is not fit for human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chapattis and dal which we have to eat."
(i) Do you remember the source of this literary evidence?
(ii) To which event the above source is related?
(iii) What was the grievance of the policemen?
(iv) What is the importance of these types of literary sources?

Why was he forced to leave the kingdom?

Look at the Map along with a present-day political map, of India. In each of these maps try and identify the different parts of India that were under the British rule.